Treating Trauma Podcast

As we continue to explore the tenants of the Milestones experience, today we're joined by Clinical Supervisor Amanda Morrow to discuss our innovative trauma expertise.

Together, Mickenzie, Christopher, and Amanda share the "magic" behind the Milestones clinical approach and the innovative recovery that works. As Amanda shares, the differentiating factor amongst the team of highly skilled clinicians is the heart, compassion, and care they bring into everything they do.

She shares about different therapeutic modalities, how we approach trauma and addiction, and encouragement for people considering this work.

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Mentioned in this Episode:
2:02 - Amanda's role as Milestones' Clinical Supervisor 
5:35 - How Milestones approaches trauma 
8:00 - The difference between attachments and addictions 
12:27 - The importance of creating a predictable and supportive environment 
15:57 - The indescribable "magic" of Milestones 
19:33 - Milestones therapeutic modalities 
21:43 - How trauma impacts our bodies 
24:50 - How we unlearn our trauma 
27:54 - The most surprising things about the Milestones experience 
33:45 - Regulating the effect of trauma on our nervous systems
38:54 - Amanda's encouragement for those considering Milestones 

Creators & Guests

Host
Christopher O'Reilly
Christopher O’Reilly, MA, LPC, serves as the Vice President of Clinical Services for Milestones. Christopher has an extensive career running residential and outpatient programs specializing in trauma, addiction treatment, and detox. Within a nearly 20-year career with Caron Treatment Centers, he honed his administrative and clinical skills, overseeing residential programs’ full range of operational and therapeutic functions. Christopher also served as an adjunct professor at West Chester University, teaching mind, body health.
Host
Mickenzie Vought
In her role as Alumni and Community Relations, Mickenzie is responsible for serving Onsite, Milestones, and Onsite Wellness House alumni communities. She is also integral in furthering Onsite’s mission to design and deliver transformational experiences that optimize life and build meaning and value into the human experience. You may recognize her voice or face through the various hats she wears representing the Onsite brand as the producer and co-host of the Living Centered Podcast and host of Onsite’s emotional wellness webinars.

What is Treating Trauma Podcast?

We all have moments where life is hard, yet some of us have had to endure more than our fair share of pain, hardship, struggle, and trauma. Through in-depth interviews with our clinicians and trauma experts, this limited series explores how unresolved experiences from our past can interfere with the demands of our present, impact our relationships, and hold us back from the future we want to live.

If you or someone you love is struggling with behaviors associated with unaddressed trauma, Treating Trauma offers a unique look at how various healing methods and trauma treatments can offer a path toward recovery, growth, and wholeness.